Featured Talk delivered by Peggy McCracken for "Animal, Vegetable, Mineral: Ethics and Objects in the Early Modern and Medieval Periods" Conference, hosted by George Washington University's Medieval and Early Modern Studies Institute @George Washington University, 11-12 April 2011.


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Artist/Composer: Peggy McCracken, University of Michigan, peggymcc@umich.edu
Date: 12 April 2011
Keywords: Old French "Roman d'Alexandre" (c. 1180); human-floral beings; flower girls; Jack Goody's "The Culture of Flowers"; tribute/exchange; sex-as-gift; embrace of the sovereign; hospitality; strange strangers/l'arrivant; Jacques Derrida; the forest; the mesh (Timothy Morton); territorialization; guest/hostage; transmission/translation; auto-poetic text networks; tributary empires

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